Posts Tagged ‘shutdown’

Recently setup a container with CentOS 6.5 and discovered a few relevant things.

A) In case VMware services cannot be stopped and the kernel module update fails,
there is an undocumented parameter, which makes it ignore start/stop errors
(a snapshot before doing so is suggested, even if it should just work):

vmware-config.pl -skip-stop-start

B) In case additional HGFS file-systems are mounted with /etc/fstab
VMware Tools will attempt to un-mount twice, resulting in an unclean shutdown.

That’s because the kernel module cannot be stopped, while it has shares mounted.